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Tar-wood

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Noun

2. dacrydium colensoi, tar-wood, tarwood

New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes

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Tar-wood

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noun
any tar produced by the destructive distillation of wood: used in producing tarred cord and rope and formerly in medicine as disinfectants and antiseptics

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Tar-wood

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a dark, sticky, syruplike substance obtained by destructive distillation of wood and used in the preservation of timber, rope, etc.

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